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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

"We haven't got the man we had when we began"

A quote from Fiddler on the Roof - it applies to Barack Obama for many of his supporters. The dreamers who believed that Obama would be a "different" kind of politician. Hah!

There is no such thing. There are only winners and losers. Obama aims to be a winner. So he does not hand the Republicans a weapon to be used against him. He votes for FISA.

So, how did the dreamers conjure up Obama, the new kind of politician? Did Obama help them to have that dream? Did Obama use demagogy to win the nomination?

Demagogy refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda.

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Retired business school professor of marketing and entrepreneurship. M.B.A. Rutgers, Ph.D. Columbia School of Business. After the Ph.D., seven years of business experience at Mobil Oil and IBM. After working in business, 33 years of Business School teaching, mostly at the MBA level at Baruch College and Pace University. Published 100 articles and papers and one book. The book is viewable as a website: mbatoolbox.org. Consulting with IBM, AT&T, Nynex, others. Two years military service during the Korean War (1951-1953): Infantry Basic Training, Army Chemical Corps. See my website mbatoolbox.org